After Mitt Romney's birth certificate joke at a Michigan campaign rally Friday led to outrage from the Obama campaign, a top RNC official told MSNBC he doesn't see what the big deal is.

"Look, it's -- I mean, it's a light-hearted moment," Sean Spicer, RNC communications director, said. "He was stating a fact. He's proud of the fact he was born in michigan, that Mrs. Romney was born in the area."

Spicer accused the Obama campaign of hypocrisy.

"I found it somewhat laughable that these guys who have taken gutter politics to a new low, if you can do that, are suddenly feigning outrage about this kind of comment," Spicer said.

As he often does, Donald Trump tweeted about his ongoing conspiracy theories regarding President Obama's birth certificate on Friday. In an awkward case of bad timing, however, it came right as Mitt Romney joked about the issue, prompting criticism from the Obama camapign over Romneys' refusal to condemn birther supporters.

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Romney accepted Trump's endorsement earlier this year and has publicly praised his role as a campaign surrogate. While Romney has always stated he believes the president was born in the United States, he has been reluctant to criticize supporters for promoting debunked conspiracy theories claiming otherwise.